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KURDS' DREAM OF INDEPENDENCE
Al Jazeera
8 Aug 07
There are about 25 million Kurds, making them the fourth-largest
ethnic group in the Middle East after the Arabs, Persians and Turks.
Promised but never granted their own country after World War I,
they are spread across areas of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from the Kurdistan region of Iraq on the
quest for their own country.
Turkey, home to more than half of all Kurds, denies that Kurds have
a separate ethnic identity and bans any official use of the Kurdish
language.
In Iran, the Kurds have no right to self-government or administration
and in Syria, around 300,000 Kurds are denied Syrian citizenship.
Stateless, they are banned from using public hospitals, getting food
subsidies and cannot travel outside the country.
'Villages burning'
Colonel Abdullah Kardez devoted his life to protect his people,
spending 27 years in the mountains fighting the Iraqi army of Saddam
Hussein.
Kurdistan, the dream: An area spread across Syria, Turkey, Iraq,
Iran and Azerbaijan
"I felt it in my heart, I had to protect my people and my nation. All
the villages around us were burning and we were dying," he said.
They were called the Peshmerga. The word means "ready to die" for
the millions of Kurds without a nation - and in some countries,
with limited rights.
Khaled Saleh, adviser to Massaoud Barzani, prime minister of the
Kurdistan region, said: "For those in Turkey, it's an issue because the
language was banned, The kind of political struggle is very different.
"Here for example you have religious freedom, whereas in Iran, you
have to be under a system whereby the political system is based on
religious identity."
Semi-permanent self-rule
Since 1991, the Kurds of Iraq achieved self-rule in part of the
country.
Today's teenagers are the first generation to grow up under Kurdish
rule.
Still, they remain Iraqis, but the Kurdish dream made a huge leap
in 2003.
Overnight, the Kurds became key players in the Baghdad government. Now
they have to strike a fine balance between their dream for independence
and preserving these new-found powers.
Iraq's first post-war president, Jalal Talabani, is a Kurd. Portraits
of him and Barzani are a best seller.
But Mullah Mustafa Barzani, Masood Barzani's father, remains a
Kurdish hero.
Independence hero
"He did everything, he established the Kurdish movement and without
him we couldn't do anything," one streetseller said.
Mustafa Barzani led the Kurdish struggle for independence from Iran
in the 1940s, and fought with the Iraqi government in the 1960s and
1970s. He was president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Ninety-eight per cent of Kurds in Iraq have voted for independence,
but the regional government is aware that the road ahead is still
long and goes through Baghdad.
Saleh said: "There is a degree of political realism by the Kurds in
Iraq saying we have to be merging with this political system so we
can protect our achievements.
"And also [to] have a share of power and wealth in Baghdad because
that's what is important for protecting Kurdistan interests."
Kurds of Iraq are at the forefront of the struggle for a nation of
all Kurds.
Music and dance have kept the Kurdish traditions and identity alive.
But their dream of independence, very much alive, has been put on
the shelf for now.General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”Comment
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Peter,Originally posted by Peter Stitt View Post
My personal opinion is that Armenians and Kurds should open up more channels for dialouge and even though I can do very little, I would invite Kurds to visit and join this site.
I sympathize with the plight of the Kurds in Asia Minor and the Middle East and believe that they rightfully deserve their own state. They have been the victims of racist policies administered by the governments of Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq. I truly hope they have their own state very soon and it looks like they may finally get one in what was once known as Northern Iraq (but I and other choose to call "Kurdistan"). The Kurdish people absolutely need to have their own state with no inteference and where they can build their future.
They have suffered for decades under tyranny but part of that suffering had to do with their own fratricidal war between various Kurdish clans and I hope they are sincerely becoming united. Without unity they will fail and another opportunity will be lost.
I truly hope the Kurds grow in strength and break down their political divisions. I hope they will become a friend and ally to Armenia. I see great potential in Kurdistan and I hope that the Armenians and other Christians who have fled Baghdad and other areas of Iraq find refuge in Kurdistan and are allowed to work, live and worship in safety. I can tell you that as Armenian, if this happens, our collective appreciation for the Kurds will grow.
I also hope the Kurds stand up to the impending Turkish invasion. I would like to see the Kurdish authorities protect their bretheren in Anatolia and not sell-out their brothers to the Turks. I hope they remember what all of the Turkish supported village guards, clan chieftans, traitors, and mafia have done to their people on behalf of the facist Turkish state. I hope the Kurds will not be used by the Turks once more so I would love to see them stand tall against our common enemy.
That being stated, there are quite a few Armenians that have negative feelings towards Kurds because of the latters role in the Hamidian Massacres and the Armenian Genocide. In this past, Kurds and Armenians have had a very tumultuous relationship. Though I have to say that it was Armenians who were harrassed and maltreated by their Kurdish neighbors, who doing much of the dirty work on behalf of our mutual Turkish overlords. The Kurds were used by the Turks as butchers and after the Genocide, the Turks broke their promises to the Kurds and in turn slaughtered the Kurds.
In recent years, Kurds (their leadership) have admitted such.
Much of the animosity that the Kurds had for Armenians was for religious and cultural reasons. Armenians were unfortunately looked down upon for being Christian as well as being townsfolk, farmers, merchants, educated, etc. Armenians were the "Other" and it was very easy for the Turks to encourage Kurds to feel threatened by their Armenian neighbors. The Turks were successful in spreading lies that Armenian would massacre them because they wanted to kill Muslims. They were also promised our land, "riches"/baksheesh and autonomy but were given nothing.
I would encourage Kurds to look around them and see that Armenians get along just fine with Muslims in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, etc. They live amongst Sunnis and Shiites peacefully. Our problems are with Turks do to the latters Pan-Turanism and the results of such policies that a part and parcel of that demented philosophy.
The PKK are considered terrorists by many people but that movement was not created in a vacuum. It was the direct result of oppresion to the Kurdish language, culture, economic vitality, education, and harrasment by the authorities under the banner of Kemalism. You can only push people so far until their patience runs dry.General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”Comment
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Yezidi's murdered in Iraq
My prayers and sympathies to the Yezidi people.
Al Qaeda in Iraq suspected in attack massacreStory Highlights
At least 200 people killed in bomb attacks in Iraq;
String of attacks in northern Iraq town targeted mainly Kurdish minority
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi officials said Wednesday that the string of suicide truck bombings that killed and wounded hundreds in villages in northern Iraq looked like the work of al Qaeda in Iraq.
The attacks targeted the Yazidi sect, a mainly Kurdish religious minority in northern Iraq.
1 of 3 "This attack -- the spectacular nature of it, the complete disregard for human life, the car bombs that were used -- all have a consistent profile with al Qaeda in Iraq violence," said Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman.
An Iraqi Interior Ministry official also was adamant that the strikes were the work of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Tuesday's attacks killed at least 200 people and wounded at least 300 others.
The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq said the truck bombs went off in the villages of Qahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair in Nineveh province's Sinjar region -- where many members of the Yazidi religious minority live. See a timeline of deadliest attacks in Iraq »
The villages are in northwest Iraq, near the Syrian border, where Sunni militants, including al Qaeda in Iraq, have operated and targeted Yazidis before.
Briefing reporters in Baghdad on Wednesday, Bergner said there is "much we still have to learn" about who was involved and what the forensic evidence will yield.
Police in Mosul, about 60 miles to the east, said that U.S. military helicopters are evacuating wounded people to Duhuk province in the Kurdish region. There is a request for blood donors. Watch CNN's Arwa Damon describe the 'utterly devastating' attack »
The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Muslims, as well as Yazidis, were killed in the attacks, and crews sifting through the rubble think the death toll could go up.
"We still have a great deal of work to do against al Qaeda in Iraq and we have great deal of work to do against al Qaeda networks in northern Iraq," Bergner said.
Condemnation of the attack was worldwide.
Ashraf Qazi, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for Iraq, called the attacks an "abominable crime aimed at widening the sectarian and ethnic divide in Iraq."
Qazi urged Iraqi authorities to bolster their efforts to protect minorities.
The Yazidi sect is a mainly Kurdish minority, an ancient group that worships seven angels, in the form of peaxxxxs, who are subordinate to the supreme god who created the universe. Find out more about the sect »General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”Comment
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General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”Comment
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Another interesting read
Letter of Appreciation
Response to Featured Writer Victor Sharpe's Support for Kurds
To the Israel Hasbara Committee: A letter of appreciation for IHC featured writer’s articles in support of the Kurds
Dear Mr. Sharpe,
I'm very, very grateful to you for taking your valuable time to reply to my short letter. Your kind personal words show, once again, that you're a committed and honest researcher of truth. Thank you for being a friend of the Kurds and for supporting our struggle for liberation with articles that speak truths with enlightened reason. I hope your wish and that of millions of humans, who just want to live their lives freely, will come true one day, but it's so difficult to be optimistic when you're surrounded by enemies.
Why don't the Kurds have their own state by now, yes that is the central question to ask, and for us it is the hardest and saddest to answer. What we know and feel, in our brains, blood and cells, that it is a punishment not being united, not having our united country. We have been and are being punished for something, but what we don't know. What did we do to deserve such hatred, pain, suffering, torture, genocides? Have we invented and used the atomic bomb? Have we invented and used machine guns, tanks, mass killing gases? Have we occupied, colonial zed, terrorized other countries, and murdered other people? Have we destroyed other cultures, exterminated other peoples? If we have, I will accept our fate and punishment, even though others have been pardoned for unbelievable crimes long ago.
There must have been something that we have done wrong, something more terrible than the crimes of the Germans with Hitler, or of all the other criminal states of the past and present. I don't know what. Was, is it our own fault? Is it to do with our genes, with some natural causes that we are so weak? Probably converting to Islam was wrong. We had been free without it. With it the more numerous Arabs, later Persians and Turks, who had and have nothing to do with religion, but have instrumental zed Islam for political, territorial gains, could dominate us easier and better, now that we were Muslims and accepting submission to Islamic rules under their caliphs. Islam and submission made us only weaker and weaker, and the others stronger and stronger. The other historical mistakes were to side with the Turks when they occupied Anatolia and in the World War I, instead of fighting the Turkish intruders and getting rid of them. But maybe there was no real alternative? I don't know. In any case we were the losers. We were encircled by enemies throughout history. The Western powers divided up our country, already weakened for centuries by our so-called Muslim brothers, into even weaker parts, making it light game for the surrounding wolves. We have a homeland, Kurdistan, confirmed by history for thousands of years, Arabs and Turks turned up much later, under the banner of Islam they showed their real faces as occupiers, hunters, murderers, destroyers.
Isn't it purely evil how Turks, Arabs, Iranians have managed to blind most of mankind with their lies?! There's no support for the Kurds, subjected to linguistic, racial, physical genocides for a century, there's no UN resolution for the freedom of 50 million people, but not one day is passing by without the whole world reporting with this shameless, disgustingly evil sympathy about the Arabs, so-called Palestinians, in ancient Jewish lands. And denying the Kurds the most natural of all rights and laws, their independence and control of their own destination.
Didn't Arabs criminally conquer and occupy vast lands for all their history? Now they want another state in a land that belongs to the Jews, and the whole world is supporting this. Isn't Turkish history the same: killing, destroying, exploiting, and settling in other peoples' lands? And don't they already occupy vast regions in Asia? What are their contributions to humankind for centuries? Nothing. I don't believe they can be called civilizations. If they at least minded their own business and lived peacefully! But they don't. They've preferred and continue, without conscious and shame (supported by their perverted understanding of Islam), torturing, killing, exterminating others, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds etc. They continue exploiting our natural resources, scarce as they already were, and what are left are lands that they've turned into our mass graves.
And the whole world turned a blind eye, negotiating with them, doing their business and trade with them, making them feel important. They call the fight for Kurdish liberation 'terrorism', and they don't have a problem talking and supporting truly criminal and terrorist states, instead they're supplied with billions of dollars, guns, bombs, tanks. They call themselves democrats, but they're all hypocrites.
The Turks exterminated the Armenians, and they got away with it. Where's the punishment for that? The Turks don't admit it, and they never will; assuming that they'll change and admit their guilt is like trying to make stone turn into water. I don't believe Turks or Arabs or Iranians will ever change by reason. Is there another state today that demands from another people that they mustn’t speak their own language, mustn’t have their own schools, mustn’t have their own culture and their own identity, and that punishes with torture and murder if they do?? Isn't that proof of real demonic evil? And they call themselves Muslims and build more mosques and print more Korans, day after day.
Why isn't there one kind word and support from democratic governments for us? Why doesn't even one dare to say that there are Kurds and that there is Kurdistan and that they're constantly under threat by these wolves? Why do they talk with the wolves but never with us? Why doesn't the American president or the Israeli Prime Minister come and meet us? Why do they go meet Arabs in Palestine and Arabia, places that give birth to Islamic hate, suicide bombers, and terrorists, meet people that want to wipe out Israel, but can't come to see us? They go and meet Turkish ministers who have no problem talking with Hamas and can call Israel a terrorist state, most Turks think like that.
We Kurds have the greatest sympathy for the Jews who have suffered so much throughout their long history. Don't they feel some empathy for us as we do for them? Shouldn't they be the first to openly reach out their hands to us? I don't understand it. I don't understand why we are ignored or despised. We've become misfits in our own land and everywhere else.
Dear Mr. Sharpe, I'm very sorry that my appreciation of your reply has become so wordy, but it's so kind to hear that somebody out there cares for the Kurds, in both scholarly and friendly way.
Thank you once again more for talking sense to others, making them see reality and truth. If there is God, I wish all of His blessings for you.
Sincerely,
Axin Arbili
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Kurdish Aspect "emails" posting
Dear Joseph and Steph and all other friends,
I just thought I would draw your attention to a reply I made to the comments of a very reasonable but very deluded Turkish gentleman in the "your emails" section of Kurdish Aspect's website. My reply refers directly to the issue of the Armenian genocide and what is required, in my opinion, for all parties to "move on".
Oh, and Joseph, my Kurdish Aspect email box is apparently down but, as a very open sort of man I have no problem with you or anyone else contacting me directly (I'm used to threats from extremists and, as someone who believes in freedom and dignity for all peoples, I refuse to be intimidated by morons) so my direct email address is [email protected] so feel free to contact me.
God bless the Armenian people,
PeterComment
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"THERE CAN NEVER BE A KURDISTAN, THERE IS NO KURDISTAN, WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT!"
Kurdishaspect.com - By Miranda O'Kelly
Saturday, November 3rd: Today I went to the "Turkish anti P.K.K"(Kurdish Workers Party) protest in Times Square. It was kind of a sad affair. (For them). There were some screechy speeches about how the P.K.K. has killed so many Turkish citizens, with interludes of loud Fascist music, (but no mention that most of the 37 thousand dead were killed by the Turkish State, over three thousand Kurdish villages destroyed and three million Kurdish people forced from their land with no compensation). However, the bigger message which was clearly the
point of the whole thing, was about America (and Europe's) perception and press coverage of the Kurdish/P.K.K. issue. Speaker after speaker railed against the use of the words "rebel" "separatist" and "guerilla" in the Western press. One of the speakers shouted in outrage: "When talking about the P.K.K. they must always say terrorist"." Then he went on and on trying to compare the P.K.K. to
Al Queda and insisting they are exactly the same.
One of the most amusing speeches to me, was when a woman got up and complained about the strong Kurdish lobby here on the East Coast. "Just look at The American Kurdish Information Network's web site! She also mentioned the fact that they had held a 24 hour a day protest in front of the Turkish embassy in Washington DC (this was many years ago, but it must have wounded her deeply.)
I didn't get to the protest till three thirty and it started at one, so maybe I missed a lot, but it seemed low intensity, low turn out (about a quarter length of block had a narrow barricade rectangle set up on 40'th street) and the organizers tried to fill the space with a huge Turkish flag held by protesters. There were at most maybe 100-150 people? Ultimately there was something both very sick and very sad
about it. I tried to interview a few people, just trying to elicit their opinions. I asked " Is the Kurdish language legal in Turkey? Is there Kurdish TV? Can Kurdish be spoken in the government? "
Across the board the Turkish protesters told me "Yes, Kurdish is legal, in fact the Kurds probably have MORE rights than us.. "etc . etc. "Yes they have TV...
in fact they have many many channels that are in Kurdish, and they have radio. They have many many stations. They have full rights, they are just the same as us, even they are better off... maybe some try to improve themselves by learning Turkish but if they want to speak Kurdish they are free. "
Actually the facts are: It is still illegal to speak Kurdish in Turkey. Children speaking Kurdish in school can be severely punished. If one wants to study Kurdish, to read and write, one can theoretically take a private Kurdish class only after one has graduated through the entire Turkish school system. This policy
renders Kurdish people unable to read and write in their own language. If a politician uses the Kurdish language in any official capacity he can be charged with a crime, As slight an act as performing a wedding in Kurdish or sending out invitations in Kurdish and Turkish can lead to fines or jail. There is NO Kurdish TV station allowed in Turkey (or radio) and ROJ TV, the Kurdish satellite channel broadcast from Europe is repeatedly blocked by the Turkish government. There are ten minutes PER WEEK allowed to be broadcast in Kurdish, but this can
consist of only music and some news. Definitely no content for children.
But none of these protestors "against P.K.K. terrorism" seemed to be aware of the facts. Over and over I heard: "The Kurds have their rights, they can speak Kurdish in Turkey, there is no problem." The juxtaposition of what these people say and seem to believe is so absurdly far from reality sometimes it was hard to keep a straight face.
There was a poor old man selling books about "the Armenian lie" and when I spoke to him in Turkish, he excitedly explained about his book.. he was so thrilled to talk about how the Armenians killed the Turks. Then there were some younger men in suits near the front of the barricades who immediately asked me "What channel are you from" and when I jokingly said "Youtube" they said "So you are a spy." They were laughing, I was laughing, and then someone came up with a video camera and started filming me and someone else with an SRL camera,
with big lenses started taking pictures of me while I was interviewing people.
Obviously there is a big P.R. campaign by the Turkish government to control the language used in the western media, to control the terms of discourse in the press. Frankly this protest seemed to be 75 % about the media coverage of the issue. They are upset about the tone of recent articles in the NY times and other papers. Although there was one speaker who said "There can NEVER BE A KURDISTAN. THERE IS NO KURDISTAN. WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT". And I thought finally the point of this whole thing has slipped out.
I interviewed three men for a while and they remained very polite until at the end, one of them started saying "blood for blood.. there will be blood". Even though his words were violent, he seemed like a broken person just mouthing a slogan that made him feel stronger. It was pathetic.General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”Comment
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Rauf Naqishbendi
November 9, 2007
Turkey’s application to join the European Union has met with a lukewarm response. The relationship between Washington and Ankara has been going downhill since the commencement of the Iraq War. The United States Senate has passed two resolutions affecting this issue: one acknowledging the Turks’ genocide against Armenians, and the other, passed by an overwhelming majority with a vote of 75-23, calls for the partitioning of Iraq into three autonomous regions. The aggregate effect of all these events has been the spiteful reaction of Turkish leaders as they attempt to vindicate themselves by making Kurds their scapegoat. According to them, Kurds are to blame for everything, because if it weren’t for the Kurds none of this evil would have befallen them. In this manner, they energized their mighty army to wreak their Turkish wrath (genocide) upon Iraqi Kurds.
Let us examine the Turkish animosity toward Kurds. First and foremost, the Kurds have not been in a position of power since the inception of Islam, more than a thousand years ago. During this time Kurds have been at the mercy of their occupiers, of which Turks happen to be one. This implies that Kurds did not tear apart Turkish communities, they did not forcefully foist themselves on Turkish lands against their will, and they did not deprive Turks of their human and national rights. On the contrary, Turks imposed their draconian occupation on Kurdistan, they demonized, disenfranchised and marginalized Kurds and treated them as less than slaves. Kurds then sought decent and humane treatment from the Turks. Asking for humane treatment seems reasonable to civilized people, but not to Turks.
Turkey has embroiled itself in a doleful war against the Kurdish Workers Party (the PKK) for the past two decades, and there is no end in sight. While the PKK is fighting to enfranchise Kurds and free them from the fetters and shackles of human abuse, Turkey has embarked on a campaign to mute the Kurdish pleas for justice and equality and extirpate the PKK. The bloodshed took more than 30,000 lives, the majority of which were innocent Kurdish civilians. Turks wiped out more than 2,000 Kurdish villages and towns, forcing millions of Kurds to leave their homes and relocate in other parts of the country. During this time, Turkey has spent tens of billions of dollars which it didn’t have and had to borrow and finance at the cost of more destruction and human tragedy. The country was now polarized with Turks against Kurds. Given this background, it is amazing that Turkish authorities still have not pursued diplomacy, and instead continue to wield their iron fist and angry violence as the only remedy. The Turkish repulsion of dialogue with the PKK is a conspicuous reaffirmation of the Turkish government’s desire to continue the status quo suppression of the Kurds.
To clear the way for their atrocities against Kurds, Turkey is determined to block any inroads Kurds would make toward their freedom and statehood anywhere in the region. Since the Iraqi liberation, thanks to America, the Kurds in Iraq have been breathing freely, cherishing their opportunities and making their region shine as the bright spot of the American Iraqi liberation. Turkish authorities have been adamant about their hatred for Kurds and they have taken advantage of every chance they got to derail their achievements. The Turkish mindset is that anything good for Kurds is bad for Turks, while Kurds perceive it entirely differently.
In the Middle East, where vendettas are commonplace, and the revengeful “eye for an eye” mentality reigns, Kurds are practicing harmony and friendship even with their foes. Since the Iraqi liberation Kurds, as a gesture of good will, have granted many contracts to Turkish companies and entrepreneurs, and have engaged in every proper neighborly action to attempt to establish a good relationship with Turkey. It is telling to see how Kurds responded to Turkish intolerance with good deeds and forgiveness. This is a clear indication that a sovereign Kurdish state in north Iraq would by no means be harmful to Turkey, but on the contrary would be beneficial to Turkey given the Kurds’ peaceful sentiments. Turks should not scorn the idea of a sovereign Kurdish state; it is inevitable and they better get used to it.
So often people get caught up in nostalgia for their past in such a way that it taints their vision and judgment in the present. Turks must realize that the way of arbitration of the Ottoman Empire is a century old, and in the modern world the prevailing remedy for contention and clashes between nations is sound diplomacy not violence and bloodshed. Should Turkey continue in a path of hatred and violence, it will have much to lose, whereas genuine diplomacy would return an immense dividend of peace and prosperity. Resources they have devoted to destruction and bloodshed could be diverted toward reconstruction and social welfare. The division of Turkey into classes, where Turks are superior and everyone else inferior hinders social and economic advancement. Justice for all will invigorate the society to work for the good of the nation as a whole, and consequently enhance Turkey’s economic and political stand in the world. The enemy of Turkey isn’t Kurds but rather the members of the chauvinistic Turkish right wing who have never accepted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and still aim at world domination.
Since the 1980s, the Turkish military has violently intruded into Iraqi Kurdistan several times and left thousands of their solders and heavy war machinery in Kurdistan to fight the PKK, yet the PKK have not by any stretch of imagination given up their struggle or ceased to exist. Since this is what happened in the past, Turks must realize that another bloody tour into Kurdistan will fail as miserably as their previous tours. Thus, they now insist that American troops fight their battle for them, as if America is a Turkish colony. Thankfully, Washington has refused their demands. If the Turkish government were to hearken to the voice of reason, it would have peacefully resolved this problem long ago. That being said, time is neutral and it is never too late to do what is right.
Turks have suffered the consequences of their own present and past crimes. Due to their lack of courage to face reality, they found in Iraqi Kurds a scapegoat to take the edge off their misery. Iraqi Kurds must beware for Turks have at their disposal a lethal and fatal weapon. They used it effectively against Kurds in their own country as well as Armenians, Assyrians and others of the Christian faith - this weapon is called GENOCIDE.General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”Comment
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No Kurdistan needed it will open up a new can of worms, I approve of Kurds recognizing there acts during the Armenian Genocide but claiming our lands is even worse.Comment
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